Stop the bullying

[funmom]

A coworker friend of mine is currently being harassed by a few nurses at work. I refused to participate in this and almost found myself a target too. Luckily my coworker has a good reputation at work and has friends there. I see what she's going through and it makes me sick to my stomach. I'm asking all other nurses to please watch the way you treat others. My friend carried this home with her and it affected her work, husband and kids, and career satisfaction. If you see this happening to other people, don't join in.

[SoundofMusic]

Oh, these morons exist in every unit. They made my life hell as a new nurse, yet now most of them are gone off of our unit now and I remain. Probably because they were just miserable people to begin with.

The ones who remain I just look at squarely and very oddly when they start their crap and ask them, "What do you mean by that?? " or some other such phrase. They're not going to scare me off anymore. I just am too stressed, too tired of it all to even CARE about what they think, or how they're going to react me me giving them a challenge anymore. I study a LOT, and I'm smarter than most of them anyway -- so they don't bother me.

But I'm not planning on staying a nurse. I'm in grad school now and in a year or two I'll be done with bedside nursing. I guess they've succeeded in driving me off as well, although not as quickly.

Honestly, who ARE these women who do this to other women in nusring? It's just so unusual as it just isn't done in other fields to this extent.

I feel it's all due to nurses being a suppressed group. Those who are trapped and supprssed just usually turn in on each other. It's a very sad phenomenon.